DAILY FLOOR WRAP UP
July 23, 2013
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS
Ordering the Previous Question on
H. Res. 312 — "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2397)
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; and providing for
consideration of the bill (H.R.
2610) making appropriations for the Departments of
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes." –
ADOPTED 229 – 190
H. Res. 312
— "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2397) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2610)
making appropriations
for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban
Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2014, and for other purposes." –
ADOPTED 226 – 194
Walberg (R-MI) - Amendment No. 1 - Increases funding for the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response
by $10 million and reduces funding to the Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $11 million. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Delaney (D-MD) - Amendment No. 2 - Increases Fisher House Account by $16 million, decreases Operation and Maintenance
Account Defense-Wide by $25 million; Difference in values maintains outlay neutrality. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Grayson (D-FL) - Amendment No. 4 - Increases the Defense Health Program Account by $10 million to specifically target
finding a cure for Gulf War Illness which directly affects over one-fourth of veterans from the first Gulf War. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Israel (D-NY), King (R-NY)
- Amendment No. 5 - Increases by $10 million the Defense Human
Resources Activity account for
the purpose of enhancing DOD efforts in mental health research,
treatment, education, and outreach and reduces the same amount from the
Office of the Secretary of Defense account. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
En Bloc 1 –
Nos. 6, 32, 76 – 82 –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Langevin (D-RI)
- Amendment No. 7 - Reduces the appropriation for Operations and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $5 million
and transfers this amount to RDT&E, Defense-Wide for the purpose of
restoring the funding for Cyber Security Advanced Research to the
amount requested in the President’s Budget. –
NOT OFFERED
Langevin (D-RI)
- Amendment No. 8 - Reduces the appropriation for Operations and
Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $22 million
and transfers this amount to RDT&E, Navy for the purpose of
supporting development, demonstration, evaluation and fielding of
promising undersea technologies in RDT&E Project Number 2033, for
Advanced Submarine Systems Development. –
REJECTED BY VOICE
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 9 - Increases funding for Defense Health Program account (intended for PTSD) by $500,000
offset by a similar reduction in the Environment Restoration, Army account. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 11 - Reduces funding for Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $1 million and transfers the
same amount to the Spending Reduction Account. – NOT OFFERED
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 12 - Reduces funding for Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $2 million and transfers the
same amount to the Spending Reduction Account. – WITHDRAWN
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 13 - Increases the Defense Health Program's Research and Development account by $10
million and reduces the Defense Procurement-Wide account by the same amount. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
En Bloc 2 –
Nos. 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Pocan (D-WI)
- Amendment No. 16 - Makes available from
amounts available for the Department of Defense for research,
development, test, and evaluation $10,000,000 for applied research to
improve the safety of
advanced batteries, specifically lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. – WITHDRAWN
Heck (R-NV)
- Amendment No. 18 - Transfers $15,000,000 to Defense-Wide RDTE for
producing the Iron Dome short-range rocket
defense program in the United States, including for infrastructure,
tooling, transferring data, special test equipment, and related
components. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Lujan Grisham (D-NM), Lamborn (R-CO) - Amendment No. 19 - Reduces RDT&E by $10 million and adds $10 million to RDT&E for
Operationally Responsive Space (ORS). – WITHDRAWN
Shea Porter (D-NH), LoBiondo (R-NJ) - Amendment No. 21 - Designates funding to study the Therapeutic Service Dog Training
Program, which was directed in House Report 113-102 accompanying the FY14 NDAA. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
O'Rourke (D-TX) - Amendment No. 22 - Strikes Section 8058. –
REJECTED BY VOICE
Bonamici (D-OR) - Amendment No. 26 - Provides $30 million for the purchase of emergency response medical equipment sets
for National Guard M997A3 HMMWV ambulances to ensure they carry adequate life-saving equipment. –
WITHDRAWN
Gabbard (D-HI) - Amendment No. 3 - Increases funding for the Navy Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare weapon and Air-Launched
Long Range Anti-Ship Missile program by $104,000,000, and reduces Operations and Maintenance, Defense-wide by the same. –
REJECTED 50 – 372
Blumenauer (D-OR), Gabbard (D-HI) - Amendment No. 10 - Restores funding for Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense
Sites to FY 2013 levels so that DoD can clean up and remediate UXO in a timely and safe fashion.
–
REJECTED 176 – 242
Polis (D-CO) - Amendment No. 14 - Strikes $107,000,000 for 14 Ground-based Interceptors and reduces the deficit by the
same amount. – REJECTED 141 – 272
Blumenauer (D-OR), Conyers (D-MI) - Amendment No. 15 - Reduces funding for the Ohio-class submarines by 10 percent to
help prepare the Department of Defense for the sequestration. – REJECTED 49 – 372
Nugent (R-FL) - Amendment No. 17 - Reduces appropriations for Defense-wide rapid innovation and increases the appropriations
to develop a high power microwave cruise missile weapon. – REJECTED 93 – 327
Nadler (D-NY), Garamendi (D-CA), Polis (D-CO) - Amendment No. 20 - Cuts $70 million of unrequested funds for the East
Coast Missile Defense site and dedicate that funding to deficit reduction instead. –
REJECTED 173 – 249
Moran (D-VA), Smith (D-WA)
- Amendment No. 23 - Strikes sections 8107,
which prohibits funding to transfer or release any individual detained
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into the United States, its territories, or
possessions.
Strikes section 8198, which prohibits funding to transfer any
individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a country of origin or
other foreign country or entity unless the Secretary of Defense makes
certain certifications. Strike Section 8109, which prohibits
funding to modify any United States facility (other than the facility
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) to house any individual detained at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. –
REJECTED 175 – 247
Poe (R-TX) - Amendment No. 25 - Cuts funding to Pakistan by $600 million. –
REJECTED 186 – 237
Walberg (R-MI), Cohen (D-TN), Esty (D-CT), Rigell (R-VA) - Amendment No. 27 - Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund
by $79 million and transfer the savings to the Spending Reduction Account. –
ADOPTED 283 – 139
En Bloc 3 –
Nos. 31, 68, 85 – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Poe (R-TX) - Amendment No. 34 - Eliminates the waiver to conditions on aid to Pakistan. –
NOT OFFERED
Scalise (R-LA)
- Amendment No. 37 - Prohibits the Department
of Defense from entering into any new contracts for the procurement or
production of non-petroleum based fuels for use as the same purpose or
as a drop-in
substitute for petroleum. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Terry (R-NE) - Amendment No. 38 - Prohibits the Department of Defense to spend any appropriated funds in FY14 to enforce
Section 526 of the Energy Independent and Security Act of 2007. – WITHDRAWN
Wittman (R-VA) - Amendment No. 39 - Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to propose,
plan for, or execute an additional Base Realignment and Closure round. – REJECTED BY VOICE
Broun (R-GA) - Amendment No. 40 - Prohibits the Department of Defense from using any funds to propose, plan for, or execute
an additional Base Realignment and Closure round involving military installations located within the United States. –
NOT OFFERED
Cole (R-OK), Kilmer (D-WA), McCarthy (R-CA), Bishop (R-UT), Jones (R-NC), Loebsack (D-IA), McCollum (D-MN), Austin Scott (R-GA)
- Amendment No. 42 - Provides that none of the funds appropriated by
this Act shall be available to implement a furlough of Department of
Defense federal employees who are paid from the Working Capital Fund
(WCF) Account, which is a revolving fund and does
not receive direct funding from Congressional appropriations to finance
its operations. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Cole (R-OK), Kilmer
(D-WA), McCarthy (R-CA), Bishop (R-UT), Jones (R-NC), Loebsack (D-IA),
McCollum (D-MN), Austin Scott (R-GA) -
Amendment No. 43 - Provides that none of the funds appropriated by this
Act shall be available to implement a furlough of Department of Defense
federal employees who are paid from the Working Capital Fund (WCF)
Account, which is a revolving fund and does not
receive direct funding from Congressional appropriations to finance its
operations. –
NOT OFFERED
Cicilline (D-RI) - Amendment No. 28 - Reduces appropriations for the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund by $279,000,000 and
apply the savings to the spending reduction account. –
REJECTED 184 – 237
Cohen (D-TN) - Amendment No. 29 - Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund from $279 million to $140 million and transfers
the savings to deficit reduction. –
ADOPTED 249 – 173
Coffman (R-CO), Garamendi (D-CA), Murphy (D-FL), Cohen (D-TN)
- Amendment No. 30 - Decreases the Afghanistan Security
Forces Fund by $553.8M (contract to Rosoboronexport for 30 Mi-17
helicopters) and increases the Spending Reduction Account by the same
amount. –
ADOPTED 346 – 79
Garamendi (D-CA) - Amendment No. 33 - Cuts $2,615,000,000 from the Afghan Security Forces Fund. –
REJECTED 150 – 276
Fleming (R-LA), Bridenstine (R-OK), Forbes (R-VA), Jordan (R-OH), Pitts (R-PA), Lankford (R-OK) - Amendment No. 35 - Prevents
funds from being used to appoint chaplains without an endorsing agency. –
ADOPTED 253 – 173
Rigell (R-VA) - Amendment No. 36 - Prohibits funds in the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund from being used to commence
new projects. –
ADOPTED 332 – 94
Flores (R-TX), Gingrey (R-GA), Conaway (R-TX), Hensarling (R-TX)
- Amendment No. 41 - Prohibits any funds from
being used to enforce the selective fuel bans set forth in Sec. 526 of
the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which expands options
for the
federal government to purchase fuels by from unconventional sources
like California heavy oil resources or Canadian oil sands. –
ADOPTED 237 – 189
DeLauro (D-CT), Moran (D-VA), Wolf (D-VA), McGovern (D-MA), Bridenstine (R-OK), Connolly (D-VA), Garamendi (D-CA), Cohen (D-TN)
- Amendment No. 44 - Prohibits funds to train
the Afghan Special Mission Wing (SMW) to operate or maintain Mi-17
helicopters manufactured by Russia’s state arms dealer that the Special
Inspector
General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reports the SMW does not have
the capacity to use. –
ADOPTED 333 – 93
Lee (D-CA), Blumenauer (D-OR), Schrader (D-OR), Conyers (D-MI), Polis (D-CO) - Amendment No. 45 - Reduces funding by 1%,
excluding the Defense Health Program and Military Personnel Accounts. – REJECTED 109 – 317
Quigley (D-IL) - Amendment No. 46 - Limits funds made available in the bill to operate and maintain no more than 300 land-based
intercontinental ballistic missiles. –
REJECTED 142 – 283
Denham (R-CA) - Amendment No. 47 - Prohibits funds from being used to implement the Trans Regional Web Initiative.
–
REJECTED 185 – 238
Terry (R-NE)
- Amendment No. 24 - Increases Defense wide
O/M by $1 billion, while reducing funding in the Afghanistan Security
Forces Fund by $2.6 billion. The reduction would be in order to give DOD
more flexibility
to offset civilian furloughs. – VOTE REQUESTED
Jones (R-NC) - Amendment No. 48 - Restricts the use of funds approved by this Act from being used to carry out activities
under the United States - Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, without being approved by Members of Congress. –
VOTE REQUESTED
Jones (R-NC) - Amendment No. 49 - Restricts the use of funds approved by this Act from being used to carry out activities
under the United States - Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement. – WITHDRAWN
Kline (R-MN), Polis (D-CO), Paulsen (R-MN)
- Amendment No. 50 - Prohibits funds to carry out recent DOD
recruitment policies
in contravention of congressional intent in the Fiscal Year 2012 NDAA
and to ensure all students are given the same opportunities to enlist in
the armed forces. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
LaMalfa (R-CA) - Amendment No. 51 - Provides that none of the funds made available in this act may be used to pay any
fine assessed against a military installation by the California Air Resources Board. –
VOTE REQUESTED
Lamborn (R-CO), Lummis (R-WY), Daines (R-MT), Cramer, Kevin (R-ND) - Amendment No. 52 - Prohibits the use of funds to
conduct an environmental impact study on ICBMs. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Lamborn (R-CO), O'Rourke (D-TX), Barrow (D-GA), Jenkins (R-KS) – Amendment No. 53 -Prohibits the use of funds to implement
sequestration-related furloughs of civilian Department of Defense employees. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Meadows (R-NC) – Amendment No. 54 - Prohibits the use of funds for payment of salaries to recess appointees until the
appointee is formally confirmed by the Senate. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Mulvaney (R-SC), Van Hollen (D-MD), Coffman (R-CO), Murphy, Patrick (R-FL)
– Amendment No. 55 - Reduces funds made available
in the Overseas Contingency Operations budget by $3,546,000,000 to
better correspond with the President’s request. Protects all amounts
made available for the National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment
modernization shortfalls for homeland defense and
emergency response. – VOTE REQUESTED
Palazzo (R-MS) –
Amendment No. 56 - Prevents any funds from being used to rebase any Air
Force, Air Guard, or Air Force
Reserve aircraft until 60 days after the National Commission on the
Structure of the Air Force has submitted its report as required by the
FY 2013 NDAA. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Palazzo (R-MS), Nugent (R-FL)
– Amendment No. 57 - Prevents any funds from being used to plan for or carryout furloughs of Dual Status Military Technicians. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Rogers, Mike (R-AL) – Amendment No. - Provides that none of the funds made available by this act may be used to carry
out reductions to the nuclear forces of the United States to implement the New START Treaty. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Rohrabacher (R- CA) – Amendment No. 59 - Prohibits any funds in the bill from being provided to Pakistan. –
REJECTED BY VOICE
Stockman (R-TX), Rohrabacher (CA) – Amendment No. 60 - Prohibits participation by the People's Republic of China in joint
U.S. military exercises. – VOTE REQUESTED
Turner (R-OH), Rogers, Mike (R-AL) – Amendment No. 61 - Prevents funds from being used to reduce strategic delivery systems
and ensures that the President is in compliance with the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. –
ADOPTED BY VOICE
Walorski (R-IN)
–
Amendment No. 62 - Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from
being used to transfer or release detainees from Guantanamo Bay to
Yemen. –
VOTE REQUESTED
Bonamici (D-OR)
– Amendment No. 65 - Prevents the retirement, divestment, transfer, or
preparation to do so of C-23 aircraft
used by the National Guard and to designate $34 million for the
sustainment and operation of the C-23 aircraft in a viable state. –
VOTE REQUESTED
Hanabusa (D-HI) – Amendment No. 66 - Prohibits funds from being used to implement an enrollment fee in the TRICARE for
Life program. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
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